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Vancouver, British Columbia, May 16, 2019 – PDFTron Systems, a leading provider of document processing tools for software developers, announced today that it has secured a USD$71 million investment led by Silversmith Capital Partners, a Boston-based growth equity firm. PDFTron’s market-leading software development kit (SDK) is used by hundreds of enterprise customers around the world … Read more

ActivePDF Launches New Website Enhancing User Experience with High-Speed Navigation, Google Search Technology, and More.

PDF ist das gebräuchlichste Dateiformat im Web nach HTML und jeder in der Document Engineering Community muss sich ohne Ausnahme auf die eine oder andere Weise mit dem Format auseinandersetzen. Fast jeder kennt PDF als “digitales Papier”, denn so hat es wirklich angefangen. Doch PDF ist in den letzten Jahren “intelligenter” geworden, allerdings kämpft es … Read more

PDF is the most common file format on the Web after HTML, and everyone in the Document Engineering community without exception has to deal with the format in one way or another. Just about everyone is familiar with PDF being “digital paper,” after all, that is really how it started out. But PDF has become … Read more

The question of data exchange between print data creators and processors has been answered with PDF for the entire graphic arts industry … wait … there is actually one industry, the customer communication management (that we Germans call “output management”), which resists and is sticking to the Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) developed by IBM (known … Read more

callas software hat heute ein Update für seine pdfaPilot-Produktlinie veröffentlicht, dass das ZUGFeRD-Datenmodell 2.0 unterstützt.

New pdfaPilot update offers small yet significant improvements

Screen shot of the cover of the Mueller Report

As reported within hours by Quartz, four days after its initial release and fanfare-free, the US Department of Justice re-posted the Mueller Report PDF with a few improvements. They also added a few problems that really shouldn’t be present in such a significant historical document. The Mueller Report A Technical and Cultural Assessment of the … Read more

Screenshot of a redacted page showing an email address missed by OCR software.

On April 19 we published an analysis of the Mueller report PDF released by the US Department of Justice. Further analysis of the PDF file reveals an additional serious problem. Even after running OCR software, the report isn’t truly searchable. Take-aways The workflow DoJ chose for releasing the PDF of Mueller’s report makes the work of … Read more

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